CLUSTER 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Homer Plessy, Grandfather Clause, Sharecropping
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If you had lack ancestors, you were considered black. Examples of segregation and racially discriminatory laws in california before and after plessy. 1850, no black, mulatto person, or indian, shall be allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against, a white man. 1872, prohibited the sale of liquor to indians. 1880, illegal for white persons to marry a nergro, mulatto, or mongolian. 1894, any person who could no read the constitution in english or write his name would be disenfranchised. Racial oppression meant a criminal justice system that does not protect racialized victims of violent crimes: 1919: elaine, arkansas as a result of local sharecroppers trying to . Segregation policies (legal and customary) meant impoverished schools for nonwhites. Even by 1940, expenditure for black primary school education in the south . Between 1890 and 1910, 10 of the former 11 confederate states, starting with.
